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6 Nov 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
“I think Tolstoy is overrated as a novelist, but he’s underrated as a social figure because he influenced people that joined these communes.”
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- Ted Gioia
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- 6 Nov 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Leo Tolstoy. I think Dostoevsky was better. I know that’s controversial. Okay, let me clarify this. I think Tolstoy is overrated as a novelist, but he’s underrated as a social figure because he influenced people that joined these communes. There’s still Tolstoyan communes out there in Britain. Many people adopted vegetarianism because of Tolstoy. People changed how they viewed marriage. The impact he had on the broader society has been hidden from view. The Soviet Union tried to change Tolstoy’s image because he was so dangerous. They reframed him as just a novelist. A nationalist to some extent.…
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